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...Earlier this year, the British government hired management-consulting firm McKinsey & Co. to suggest ways the country's National Health Service (NHS) might save money in the face of rising health-care costs. But when a portion of McKinsey's confidential work calling for a 10% cut in the NHS workforce was leaked to the British press last week, politicians rushed to the airwaves to reject the report they themselves had commissioned. "That's not what we are about," Minister of Health Mike O'Brien told the BBC. "In core frontline services, we need more staff rather than fewer...
Students returning to campus this fall found it more difficult than usual to quench their thirst for alcoholic beverages. The reason? Harvard’s calendar reform, which started classes a few weeks earlier than usual and left primary campus liquor providers C’est Bon Convenience and Doma Liquors caught off guard by the early return of students at the end of last month and unable to fully meet the demands of the student body. “Usually, Harvard students come here mid-September,” said Subash Khadka, an employee at Doma...
...advertisement’s publication was the result of miscommunication and failed oversight, according to Child, who wrote in a statement published online last night that the ad was printed even though The Crimson had decided earlier in the summer...
...chilly night earlier this week. A Monday or Tuesday, I believe. I was right by Holyoke Street, just a block from Harvard square. Sweat drenched my brow. My heart was pounding. Two muscular, raging men were right in front of my face. I was pumping my legs as fast as I could, but I wasn’t going anywhere. I was thrusting my arms back and forth, but connecting with no targets...
...message appeared to sink in. A Pew Forum poll conducted that November found that only 17% of Americans held unfavorable views of Muslim Americans, a decrease from 24% just eight months earlier. The shift was most striking among conservative Republicans - in March 2001, 40% viewed Muslim Americans unfavorably, but by November, that number had plummeted by more than half to 19%. In the wake of the attacks, Americans were also reluctant to say that Islam encourages violence more than other faiths; only one-quarter agreed with that statement in March 2002. But by the time the war in Iraq began...